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Rainbow Six Siege Year 7 roadmap features three new maps, Ranked 2.0, and more

Year 7 is going to be a huge year for Rainbow Six Siege. Ubisoft has revealed Operation Demon Veil, the first season arriving in 2022, but it has also given us a look at what players can expect for the next 12 months.

The Rainbow Six Siege Year 7 roadmap is packed with information on what Ubisoft is planning to introduce to their tactical shooter over the next four seasons. As expected, four new operators are scheduled to be added - one per season, starting with Azami in Demon Veil. However, there's so much more to look forward to.

In Operation Demon Veil, Season 1, Ubisoft is introducing the attacker repicks feature to casual and ranked playlists alongside Team Deathmatch, which will be available as a permanent playlist going forwards. In addition to this, Siege's first new map in three years is set to debut in a mid-season update. As an Irish castle turned country club, expect this map to be lavishly decorated inside. Siege's Match Replay system is also being made available for console players starting from Season 1.

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Here's the Rainbow Six Siege Year 7 roadmap

Rainbow Six Siege's seventh year of seasonal content has been unveiled in full at the Six Invitational 2022, so we now know every key addition that's coming to the tactical FPS game over the next 12 months.

Year 7 follows a similar format to the past couple of years of Siege content, with four new operators rather than eight, and only a couple of new maps. We already met the first new operator, Azami, during yesterday's Operation Demon Veil reveal, but now we know that Year 7 will be heading to Belgium, Singapore, and Columbia to collect the next three members of Team Rainbow. As for maps, you can expect three brand-new maps during Year 7, but one of them will only be available for the upcoming team deathmatch mode.

The rest of the key content changes concern quality of life changes and gameplay reworks. Season 2 will add a shooting range where players can practice their recoil control and get a feel for their favourite weapons and optics. Ubisoft is also adding an in-match menu of operator tips to help new players learn about their character's kit and role without tabbing out.

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Rainbow Six Siege's new operator can repair breaches

Ubisoft is kicking off the seventh year of seasonal updates for Rainbow Six Siege with some of the most substantial additions the tactical shooter has received in years. There's the usual new operator - a Japanese defender called Azami - the first brand-new map since 2019, a new permanent game mode, a couple of operator reworks, and some long-awaited quality of life changes.

We'll start with the new operator, Azami. Her unique gadget is the Kiba Barrier, a throwable kunai that releases a substance after impact, which then hardens to form a bulletproof disc with a radius that's more than big enough. She gets four of these, but they operate on a cooldown so you can't just throw them all at once in a last-ditch effort to deny the attacking team access to the bomb site. And, while these barriers are bulletproof, they can be destroyed with explosives and a few melee strikes.

Azami is the first operator in Rainbow Six Siege who can repair or patch surfaces up after they've been breached, so her arrival is bound to usher in plenty of new tactics for the shooter's seemingly endless playbook.

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Ubisoft finally made the Rainbow Six Siege operator of my dreams

Sometimes Rainbow Six Siege adds a new gadget because it's fun to use, and sometimes it adds gadgets that fill an important role in the game's ever-evolving meta. Azami, Siege's first Year 7 operator, is a bit of both...
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Rainbow Six Siege: Demon Veil officially revealed as Y7S1

A new Rainbow Six Siege season is nearly upon us, and while Ubisoft is saving the full reveal for this weekend, we're getting the usual drip-feed of teasers leading up to the proper unveiling. Today, we learn that Rainbow Six Siege: Demon Veil is officially the name of Year 7 Season 1, and the devs have provided details on exactly when to tune in for the final reveal.

The Y7S1 reveal will take place on Saturday, February 19 at 7:30am PST / 10:30am EST / 3:30pm GMT. The first details on the Year 7 roadmap are set to follow on Sunday, February 20 at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT. Both parts of the broadcast will run on the official Rainbow Six Twitch channel, during the Six Invitational 2022.

Based on previous Siege season rollouts, you can expect Demon Veil to hit test servers shortly after the reveal, and it should hit live servers sometime in March. We'll be getting a new operator for Y7S1, of course - one who appears to be equipped with a kunai.

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